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How to Go to Hell
March 1937, page 13
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At first glance, the title of this article would seem to confirm all of today’s stereotypes of Catholic life before Vatican II: a rule-bound people awash in fear of eternal damnation. If there was ever any truth to that stereotype, Fr. Paul Hanly Furfey put it to good use … read more »

The odds were against him. Friends and business associates advised him not to do it. But Fr. Louis Gales, an assistant at St. Agnes Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, had a dream — to bring the best of Catholic reading to Catholics everywhere. Few people had the financial resources to subscribe to all the fine Catholic publications of the day, and fewer … read more »

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Catholic Relief Services (CRS), winner of the Catholic Digest Love Your Neighbor Award in 2010, shares stories of the year since the tragic earthquake in Haiti. Follow the links below to see how your Catholic brothers and sisters responded to the disaster and answered the call to help ease the… read more »

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